Fly on the Wall

If you're in the right place at the right time in this house, you can overhear the most interesting snippets of conversation.

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M: Mummy, you have nice boobs.
L: Uhh, thank you, honey.
M: They're very strong.

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M: I don't WANNA have lights off!
L: Do you want me to tuck you in and sing you Hush Little Baby?
M: Yeah.
L: Okay. You have to lie down for me to tuck you in.
M: (lies down, then points at Lorraine) Start the hush.

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M: I like the waffle maker.
L: Oh, I'm glad.
M: It's like the computer.
L: (a few puzzled seconds of silence) Oh! You mean like a laptop. Yes, it is like a computer.

Bedlam and Alcatraz

• Progress on Dan's immigration, he received his "has no criminal history" report back from the FBI, and he goes for his physical this week. Then we just gotta give the Canadian Govt. several thousand dollars...and we should be ready to go! I wonder if it's tax deductable?

• Hard week on the old home front, McKay has decided that he is the boss of all of us and doesn't have to listen. This prompted a few actions;

• Mom set the time out timer for 2 hours instead of two minutes. (subliminal or hope?)
  
• An emergency trip to Barnes and Noble for parenting books.
  
• A trip to Greens for medicinal alcohol for the parents.
  
• Telling a 3 year old that when he's doing the "pee dance" it's his body's way of telling his brain he has to pee, and only ScareCrows don't listen to their brains (This was his input). We've had more accidents in the last few weeks then we did in the first few months of potty training.
  

• We're taking tomorrow off work for a mental health day, but they're predicting snow! We've got 9am tickets to the aquarium. Hope the city doesn't shut down too badly.
  

• Murphy (Hey Fat Kitty) has decided he is indeed an outside kitty. We've all been trying to convince him otherwise. McKay is especially particular about this and has shut parts of Murphy into the front door twice during escape attempts.
  
  

Cake, IceCream and Stats

We're continuing to encourage McKay's love of cooking. Here are a few activities from the last Month.




We started tracking "hits" to TMFP last summer, and it's getting busier and busier. We have a tried and true core set of 30 readers or so, but an additional 150 people came by in January.

This is a tad freaky, but at the same time, I read quite a few "stranger's" blogs and I'm not psychopathic. Here are a few of my current favourites. Anyone else have suggestions for "must reads"?



Vancouver Housing Market Blog (tracking the boom/bust cycle in Vancouver)

Nee Naw (London Ambulance’s control room blog)

Reporters Private Notebook (great social commentary photography from all around the world)

Grand Rounds (the weekly best the medical blogosphere) This one rotates host sites, but you can see the schedule/archive at the link.

Three years ago...

We've decided to dig out and repost some of our original updates.
Keep an eye on the archive dates for some familiar pictures from way back when.

I have most of them, but I know I lost a few in the moves and switch to toomad.

Does anyone have a cached version of April 19 2003? I have the images but not the html.

Life in the South

A day at the new Georgia Aquarium.


WinterWonderland...if it won't snow, we'll make some!

Snow angel....